June 2008 - Devel - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt] libvirt passes wrong MAC address to KVM
by Nikola Ciprich 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Hi all, I think there could be a bug in libvirt passing MAC address to KVM. If I have following in my xml config: <interface type="bridge"> <source bridge="br0"/> <mac address="00:16:3e:0d:24:00"/> </interface> and start the domain (I'm using python binding btw), qemu is then executed with following parameter: ... -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:18:24:00,vlan=0 ... MAC address given in config is not used by any other machine. Does somebody have a tip on where the problem could be? I'm using libvirt-0.4.3. Thanks in advance BR nik -- ------------------------------------- Nikola CIPRICH LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. 28. rijna 168, 709 01 Ostrava tel.: +420 596 603 142 fax: +420 596 621 273 mobil: +420 777 093 799 www.linuxbox.cz mobil servis: +420 737 238 656 email servis: servis(a)linuxbox.cz -------------------------------------

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[libvirt] Re: [Ovirt-devel] Updated libvirt 0.4.3 packages with fixes
by Alan Pevec 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Alan Pevec wrote: > Chris Lalancette wrote: >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=670309 >> >> Please give them a whirl, and if you have problems, report them to me and >> libvir-devel. > > Although you didn't ask for positive reports, I can confirm that all > works fine with libvirt-0.4.3-1fixes installed on host machine, running > 'developer' and nodes built using it. One thing I forgot to mention: it works with SELinux in permissive mode (setenforce 0) I filed bz to modify selinux policy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=452103 libvirt-0.4.3 needs set/getsched If you want SELinux in enforcing mode, bz has SELinux policy module attached which you can use until selinux policy is updated.

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix XML escaping problem in the XM driver
by Daniel Veillard 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Basically the XM driver when generating the XML config forgets to escape things like filepaths allowing characters which are forbidden as-is in XML instances to pass in the resulting config files which then are unusable. The patch also adds a new test checking the escaping is done in a few critical places. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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[libvirt] Test packages for various fixes
by Chris Lalancette 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I've sent a build through koji that contains 0.4.3 + iSCSI fixes + VIR_ALLOC fixes + tapfd fixes for Fedora 9. It's available here, if you want to test: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=670309 As usual, if there are any bugs that you find, please report them here. Chris Lalancette

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[libvirt] [PATCH]: Fix allocation of tapfds when starting qemu
by Chris Lalancette 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

All, When doing the conversion to danpb's new memory API, a small bug was introduced into the qemudNetworkIfaceConnect() function. In particular, there is a call: if (VIR_ALLOC_N(vm->tapfds, vm->ntapfds+2) < 0) goto no_memory; However, the tapfds structure is used to track *all* of the tap fds, and is called once for each network that is being attached to the domain. VIR_ALLOC_N maps to calloc(). So the first network would work just fine, but if you had more than one network, subsequent calls to this function would blow away the stored fd's that were already there and fill them all in with zeros. This causes multiple problems, from the qemu domains not starting properly to improper cleanup on shutdown. The attached patch just changes the VIR_ALLOC_N() to a VIR_REALLOC_N(), and everything is happy again. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com>

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[libvirt] [PATCH]: Fix VIR_ALLOC_N for 0 byte arrays
by Chris Lalancette 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello, For 0.4.3, danpb's new memory management scheme went into libvirt. This is fine, except that is subtly alters the semantics of malloc(), calloc(), and realloc(). In particular, if you say: foo = malloc(0); glibc will happily return a non-NULL pointer to you. However, with the new memory management stuff, if you say: foo = VIR_ALLOC(0); you will actually get a NULL pointer back. Personally, I think this is a dangerous deviation from malloc() semantics that everyone is used to, and is indeed causing problems with the remote driver. The short of it is that the remote driver allocates memory on behalf of the remote side using VIR_ALLOC_N, and this call is returning NULL so that the NULL checks elsewhere in the code fire and return failure. The attached patch fixes this situation by removing the 0 checks from the memory allocation paths, and just lets them fall through to the normal malloc(), calloc(), or realloc() routines, restoring old semantics. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com>

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[libvirt] How does libvirt access kvm infomation?
by Akio Takebe 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, AFAIK kvm has only an interface of qemu console when we use device hotplug, migration and so on. How does libvirt access the interface of qemu console? Best Regards, Akio Takebe

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[libvirt] Cherokee+Libvirt+Avahi = Cool Libre Application
by Stefan de Konink 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, As I have told on the mailinglist before I'm working on a webbased implementation of the libvirt API. Using Avahi as messaging protocol, some extra tools were written: - Domumdns (Tool that puts every domain on the network (scanning interval of 10s connecting to the local hypervisor), refering back to the hostname of libvirtd) - Cherokee Avahi Handler, Cherokee Virt Handler (implements HTTP API) So basically: http://xen.bot.nu/avahi/ Shows the available vms on my network, every 10 seconds updated by domudmns. My proposal would be to add this functionality by default to libvirtd. 1) it is useful 2) it implements something of the todo list: events. http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetID http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetName http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetMaxMemory http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetMaxVcpus http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetOSType http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetUUID <-- that's odd http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetUUIDString http://xen.bot.nu/virt/klant1/gentoo/virDomainGetXMLDesc Are implemented now, the updates as attach/detach devices will be added soon, but that is not something I'm going to demo without some basic authentication ;) Stefan

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[libvirt] [PATCH 5/5]: Rewrite findLuns function
by Chris Lalancette 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

This rather large patch rewrites the virStorageBackendISCSIFindLUNs() function to only rely on sysfs for finding LUNs, given a session number. Along the way, it also fixes the bug where we wouldn't find LUNs for older kernels (with the block:sda format), and also (possibly) fixes a race condition where we could try to find the LUN before udev has finished connecting it. I say it "possibly" fixes it because I haven't been able to hit it so far, but I definitely need more testing to try and confirm. Changes since last time: 1) Don't blindly ignore the 0'th LUN (thanks Stefan). Instead, look if the LUNs are Direct-Access devices (as defined by the kernel); if so, they are LUNs we can use. 2) Fix up whitespace damage. 3) Check the return value of the scsidev strdup as pointed out by Jim. 4) Change all ISCSIADM commands to be const char *const as pointed out by Jim. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com>

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[libvirt] [PATCH 4/5]: Move the sendtarget command into the login command
by Chris Lalancette 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

A small bugfix; we only need to call the iscsiadm sendtarget command when we are first logging in; we don't need to do it for logout. Move the sendtarget command into the Login() function. Changes since last time: 1) Make const char *cmdsendtarget into const char *const cmdsendtarget based on feedback from Jim. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com>

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